Quilting

thumb|Traditional Korean patchwork pojagi wrapping cloth Patchwork or "pieced work" is a form of needlework that involves sewing together pieces of fabric into a larger design. The larger design is usually based on repeating patterns built up with different fabric shapes (which can be different colors). These shapes are carefully measured and cut, basic geometric shapes making them easy to piece together. thumb|right|Example of patchwork thumb|Example of hand-pieced patchwork

thumb|1940 photograph by Russell Lee (photographer)|Russell Lee of Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico, with state quilt

unincorporated community in Alabama

right|thumb|250px|Quilter in Bazaar of Nishapur, [[Iran]] right|thumb|250px|Women of Gee's Bend, Alabama quilting, 2005 thumbnail|Quilted skirt (silk, wool and cotton – 1770–1790), Jacoba de Jonge-collection MoMu, Antwerp / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges.

thumb|Depiction of a 13th-century gambeson (Morgan Bible, fol. 10r)

thumb|right|Nakshi Kantha|Traditional kantha stitching in [[Bangladesh]] Kantha (Bengali: কাঁথা; Hindi: कान्था), also spelled kanta or qanta, is a type of embroidery craft in Bangladesh and eastern regions of India, particularly in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Odisha. thumb|Antique quilted kantha inscribed with the meditative chant Ram Krishna, courtesy the Wovensouls collection, Singapore In Odisha, old saris are stacked on each other and hand-stitched to make a thin piece of cushion. This is normally used above a bed cushion or instead of a cushion. Kantha saris are traditi

thumb|Detail of a mid-19th-century kimono decorated using , with white [[cotton threads on an indigo-dyed plain weave background (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]] thumb|upright=2|Child's sleeping mat (), late 1800s. The stitches are decorative, but also functional; they hold the pieced cotton rags together

a type of embroidered quilt

thumb|upright=1.5|Khayamiya in Cairo Khayamiya ( ) is a decorative Egyptian art appliqué textile, that dates back to as far as Ancient Egypt. They are now primarily made in Cairo, Egypt, along what is known as the Street of the Tentmakers (''Shari'a al-Khayamiyya, or Suq al-Khayamiyya'') centered in the Qasaba of Radwan Bey, a historic covered market built in the 17th century. The street is located immediately south of bawabet el metwali (Bab Zuwayla), and is located along the historic economic axis of Cairo, in a section within Muizz street.

embroidery worked with vertical stitches offset to form a zigzag or similar geometric design